Extra, Extra

- Three New Yorkers have been diagnosed with West Nile Virus; remember: no standing water on your property
- The MTA accepted Bruce Ratner's bid to develop his metropolis of Nets basketball and luxury apartments in Brooklyn; the next two questions are will others sue to block the deal and when will Brooklyn Nets jerseys go on sale?
- The Shake Shack will be open for another month, until early December! It's all about custard in the snow!
- A writer's workshop in Union Square, thereby proving to be competition to the Barnes & Noble Starbucks cafe
- Yahoo is looking to upgrade its email service by making it more user friendly, more like Outlook but not exactly Outlook; 63 million users freak out about having to get used to another new interface
- New York magazine's Fashion Week blog, Runway Talk, asks experts about the latest shows and kitchen products
- Apparently some of the FDNY equipment (as well as lack of procedure) that might have caused two firefighter deaths and other injuries at a fire earlier this year
- The City is trying to get the Appellate Court to throw out the ruling that gay marriage is legal here, saying it's a constitutional issue, "not a legislative one"... in other words, "Please, Mayor Bloomberg will give gay charities money, but don't bug his administration with this issue until after reelection, okay?"